Robert Guerrero fought the wrong fight early on

It Ghost was more aggressive from the beginning he could have been stopped early. Thurman is dangerous especially early on, Guerrero had to wait until Keith gassed a little bit to turn it up and even then it was a last ditch effort because he knew he was losing badly.

 

What kills Guerrero is he doesn't have a damn jab. That could make up for his slow footwork. He was also trying too hard to land one punch at a time

 

I really thought he would fight that way from the beginning

 

This.

 

Fully agree. It's hard for Thurman to hurt you when you're slamming him into the ropes. I expected Guerrero to bring that the whole fight but he seemed to think he could clip Thurman with counters.

 

To me it looked like Guerrero was sitting and waiting to nail Thurman coming in with one big shot and follow up, he landed some good clean shots here and there but Thurman always kept up with more

I mean he did take it to the trenches and traded with Berto and round 10 or whatever round after the knockdown reminded me of the Berto fight as it was in a phonebooth and brutal. Like others said he had to wait for Thurman to tire a little and lose some aggression so he could come out and attack

 

I agree. He didn't implement his game plan till late in the fight. Robert has always been a slow starter and it affected him tonite..

 

I still cannot believe he got the Mayweather fight.

A very average 147 fighter.

 

I was saying pre fight Guerreros only shot was to maul Thurman. I think Thurman's power had a lot to do with Guerrero not coming inside earlier.

 

His lack of a basic 1-2 is what cost him this fight

 

Idk about that, i just think thurman was alot better then people gave him credit for...the bundu fight really made fans question Thurmans true ability... he proved naysayers wrong tonite.

 

His instincts kicked in. The safest thing to do against a devastating puncher is smother him. Guerrero happens to have a really good inside game.

Once he was hurt, he went into survival mode. since he's a natural fighter, that meant getting right up on the other guy and tearing into him, which is really the safest thing to do. I thought he swept the final 3 rounds, and if he would have started out that way Thurman would have been forced to move and wrestle, wearing him down.

I think Guerrero really just fought a poor tactical fight. It may be because Thurman came at him right away, probably anticipating it. Either way it was a great fight.

I REALLY want to see Guerrero vs. Maidana. Thurman vs. Brook would be excellent.

 

On the Thurman subject, I think he is very good.